SHANNON DOWNEY IS THE founder of Badass Cross Stitch and Seriously Badass Women. An activist, artist, craftivist, community builder, and general instigator, her award-winning work can be found in … [Read more...] about The Role of Art in Troubling Times, with Author & Activist Shannon Downey
How to Start a Writing Project? Write From a Point of Conflict, with Author Callan Wink
AUTHOR CALLAN WINK HAS been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His stories and essays have been published in The … [Read more...] about How to Start a Writing Project? Write From a Point of Conflict, with Author Callan Wink
How to Write Memoir When You Don’t Have it All Figured Out, with Jess Gutierrez
TOO MANY WRITERS BELIEVE that you must have it all figured out before you write memoir. Not so. But don't believe me. Listen to Jess Gutierrez, a former journalist who has earned several awards for … [Read more...] about How to Write Memoir When You Don’t Have it All Figured Out, with Jess Gutierrez
How Writers Figure Things Out, with Joan Wickersham
Joan Wickersham is the author of The News from Spain and The Suicide Index, the latter of which was a National Book Award finalist. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines including Poetry, … [Read more...] about How Writers Figure Things Out, with Joan Wickersham
How to Be a Freelance Writer & More, with Author Gloria L. Huang
GLORIA L. HUANG IS a freelance writer whose fiction has appeared in literary journals, including Michigan Quarterly Review, The Three-Penny Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, … [Read more...] about How to Be a Freelance Writer & More, with Author Gloria L. Huang
How to Choose an Opening Scene for a Memoir, with Brooke Randel
Today, my guest is Brooke Randall, whose new book, Also Here: Love, Literacy, and the Legacy of the Holocaust, is just out from Tortoise Books. Brooke is a writer, editor, and associate creative … [Read more...] about How to Choose an Opening Scene for a Memoir, with Brooke Randel
